Okay. So, sorry for not updating In a whileee. I have been busy hanging with my friends, and I saw little fockers last night;) it was hilarious. Oh, plus theres been NO school.

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Lissa

Oh God. This is mortifying. The guy I basically just jumped is smirking right beside me and my "fiancé" is on the other side, completely oblivious to who I was making out with. I shuddered at the thought of "fiancé."

I heard Rose and Adrian talking. I heard the screams from the ball room, and then a gun shot.

"What's happening?" I asked Dimitri. He just shook his head, and I saw the barely noticeable sadness glint in his eye. Dimitri Belikov hardly ever showed his feelings, not even at his moms funeral.

That meant this was bad.

Rose

"I tried radioing everyone else. None of it worked though. Yours was the only one with signal." I said, looking into Adrian's eyes. He was obviously thinking really hard, he was stone still, and still hadn't said anything.

"Adrian." I whispered. "I'm kind of freaking out here. I know the only possible explanation is Strigoi. But how the hell did they manage to pull this off? This event was almost as heavily guarded as the Queen's birthday ball. And that thing was crazy safe."

A sudden wave of icy realization came over me as if someone was dumping ice on me.

Adrian sensed that something was up.

"What is it Rose?" He asked. He called me Rose. As in just Rose. He was straight up serious right now.

"The queen. The queen, Adrian. This is connected with her. Word of her visit to the ball tonight must have been leaked. The Strigoi planned this all out." I looked down at the floor as I talked, and quickly looked back to where Christian, Lissa, and Dimitri were standing. They were all silently whispering.

There was a sound of static, and Adrian and I instantly leapt up to check where it had come from. He looked down to where his radio was placed on his belt and rolled his eyes. Oh. It was just the radio. He pulled it up and checked.

"Hello? This is Ivashkov and Hathaway. Is it possible to have any explanation as to what to do?" He asked. All of a sudden the screaming stopped from the ball room. It was dead silent. I waved over to Lissa, Dimitri and Christian to follow us. There was no answer to Adrian's radio, so we had a silent conversation with our eyes, not wanting to break the eerie silence. He nodded in agreement and walked slowly against the walls, pulling his stake out and getting into a pose of zero vulnerability. I motioned for the three royals behind us to follow us, putting my fingers to my lips to tell them to keep quiet. Still no noise coming from the ballroom.

I went in front of Adrian and stalked up to the big ballroom doors. I wanted to peek in there, to see what the hell was going on. But I couldn't give our position away. Especially if there was the possibility of Strigoi.

Then, as if a switch went on. I felt sleepy, and not as in drowsy. As in I was about to fall on my ass tired. I struggled with my eyes to stay open. One of them drooped shut. The other one was fighting for dear life. I slowly used all my strength to turn around to check behind me. The royals had all dropped to the floor. The way Christian was positioned; I could tell he tried to catch Lissa before she could have gotten hurt. Awh. I saw Adrian and saw that he was also on the floor. My legs gave out. I tried using all my strength to fight this. No, I couldn't give up. What the hell was happening? I saw black figures all dragging the royals and Adrian out. I felt my body give out to the floor. And at last the battle was over. My eyes fell shut, and I met complete blackness.

I opened my eyes; I was lying on a soft bed by a window. Soft, clouded sunlight was coming through the open window. I sat up and felt the cool breeze across my face, blowing a couple strands of my hair into my eyes. I tucked them behind my ear and looked down. I was wearing a light pink sundress. I don't remember owning this? It was super pretty though. I got up of the bed and stretched. Man, it felt…. Cloudy. Or muddled. Almost as if this was unreal. It was a strange feeling.

"Rose?" I heard a feminine voice ask through the open doorway across the girly purple room.

"Rose!" It was Lissa. She ran towards me with her arms open. She flung herself at me and hugged me. Weirdly, I returned the hug back and fiercely so. I hugged her with a hard intensity as I suddenly remembered all that had happened. I wanted to just stay like this. And no, it wasn't like a creepy attraction to Lissa. It's just; it felt really comforting to have someone hug me as if they actually cared. I had to let go of that feeling though, and I pushed he away from me so I could look at her. She was wearing a light green dress very similar to mine.

"Lissa, what is happening? Where are we?" I asked, finally taking a moment to gather what was happening. She sighed and walked over to the bed, patting the space beside her for me to sit down. I raised my eyebrows and wondered what was wrong.

"It's a long story." She explained from reading my features.

I walked over to the bed and turned so I faced her. Telling her with my eyes to start talking, and that this better be good.

"So we're kind of, in your dream." She said. I opened my mouth to say something but she raised her hand.

"No, just listen." She said, and then continued in what was the faster explanation I had ever heard. I mean seriously, could this chick talk fast or what?

"So, as you know. I posses the affinity for water." I nodded; everyone knew that Vasilisa Dragomir was a water user.

"Well, that's not true. I'm a spirit user." She paused.

"I know what you're thinking." She said.

"You can read minds too!" I shouted.

She burst out laughing, and tried regaining herself. She looked at me, and then started laughing again. Har har.

She finally managed to get control of herself.

"No! But it's obvious. I mean have you even heard of a spirit user before?" she asked.

"No, actually. Well, besides that one old guy who had it. But didn't he go crazy? And then… like die?"Nice Rose. Very subtle.

The corners of her lips turned up to smile, but I could tell she fought it. Well, at least she was trying to take me seriously.

"Yes, he did. That man though, was my grandpa." I nodded.

"Anyway, that gene that leads us to have spirit, skips a generation. Leaving it to me."

"So why haven't you told anyone about it?" I asked.

"Because, the government would want to interfere with my talents." She said. She said that with finger quotations.

"My parents made me." She clarified. I just nodded again. Parents, whew. I know the feeling.

"So you can walk into peoples dreams?" I asked. "What else?"

She shrugged. "nothing really. I have a stronger use of compulsion, and I can help people with like healing and stuff." All Moroi had compulsion, it was just in various weak forms. Lissa's stronger use of it could prove useful, I noted.

"Oh. And one more thing." She said "It's just a tiny little detail though."

"Good. I don't think I can handle any more crazy news." I said

"Dimitri is a spirit user too." She said.

I fainted.

Actually, I didn't faint. I woke up. I opened my eyes to darkness. I could make out three bodies along the wall directly in front of me. I was pressed up to the opposite wall. I tried standing up, but I couldn't. There were cuffs on my hands and feet. I shifted my weight and the cuffs jiggled, making a noise.

"Who's that?" I heard someone ask.

"Christian?" I peered into the darkness trying to make out anything besides the vague black forms.

"Rose. Thank god. I tried calling to you a while ago. But none of you were awake yet."

"None of us?" I asked. "as in who?"

"Lissa is right beside me sleeping. Shes trying to locate Dimitri. And yeah, she told me about the whole spirit thing. Its some crazy shit. Adrians out cold on the other side. Earlier on someone came in here trying to get you. Adrian beat the shit outta him. Which explains why we are cuffed now, its all thanks to Adrian." I wanted to explain to Christian that Adrian did the admorable thing, trying to keep me safe. But he was just kidding. Christian used humor to cope.

"Okay, so what your saying, is that Dimitri isn't here?" My heart starting to pound louder and faster than I thought possible at the thought. I don't know why though.

"Yeah, when I woke up, he wasn't here."

Lissa stirred beside Christian.

"Dimitri!" she yelled. Im assuming she woke up, because she tried reaching for Christian, judging by the rattling of her cuffs.

"Shhhh. Its okay Lissa. We all are okay. Your fine." He said. He scooted over to where she was sitting and reached out for her hand.

I kind of wanted to look away from their private moment. Wait, no. There shouldn't be any private moments. We were in a dark cave, cell place. Being held hostage! Can you say inappropriate?

"Lissa. Were you able to figure out where Dimitri was?" I asked, not bothering to try to sooth her, getting straight to business.

She sighed.

"no. But I think I know where he is. They were doing stuff to him. He was in pai-." She was cut off.

The door opened, letting a blinding light come in. We all cowered away from it.

In the door, stood Dimitris dad.

Ah, shit.

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